Sentence examples for manoeuvrings at from inspiring English sources

Some began referring to Trierweiler as "the Duchess", always watching the manoeuvrings at court.

Details of the financial manoeuvrings at BHS came as it emerged on Tuesday that the billionaire former BHS owner Sir Philip Green, who sold the company to Retail Acquisitions, will be asked to appear in front of a group of cross-party MPs.

It may sound like a mathematical or chess puzzle (in a way it is: how to get from three to two when the one doesn't want to be subtracted), but high European diplomacy is at stake and low political manoeuvrings are at work.

Pendennis: · Machiavellian manoeuvrings over at the Royal and Ancient, British golf's fusty governing body, which has for several weeks been quietly waging war against one of this country's favourite institutions, Gary Lineker.

After all the parlour game manoeuvrings we at least have a technocrat now in charge who will stay on top of the job in hand, regain stability and be sensible.

Struggling to exercise choice within the state sector was now seen as unfair middle-class snaffling of a limited resource at the expense of the poor.Last year the rhetoric hardened significantly when the official who oversees school admissions described some parental manoeuvrings as a "form of theft".

Factional manoeuvrings may be at least partially responsible for recent problems involving prominent personalities with links to senior politicians.

Even now that he is president, Mr Wahid's manoeuvrings have proved surprisingly effective at achieving difficult political ends.

Rather than join with the Left party and Greens, the SPD decided to open grand-coalition talks with the CDU.Local factors are at play in these manoeuvrings.

But now, apparently, the armed forces have decided to pre-empt all this, suspending the constitution and setting up a political-reform body of their own.Anger at Mr Thaksin's reported manoeuvrings to get his friends promoted in the annual shuffle of top military brass may have triggered the coup.

True, Ballance's broken finger which put him out for a month left them with no room for experimentation in the triangular series but these belated manoeuvrings, selecting a team that had never played together before at the start of a World Cup, bespoke a squad ill at ease with itself and where it is heading.